Engaging Communities and Organizations Ready for Excellence (EnCORE)

Engaging Communities and Organizations Ready for Excellence (EnCORE)

The EnCORE Center is our newest Center aimed at providing personalized and localized capacity development to communities, community-based organizations and public-private partners working to advance health equity in public health.

This Center provides and connects our partners with in-person and virtual training and technical assistance support, grant funding opportunities, and access to knowledge and resources.

The Gilead COMPASS Initiative® is our flagship program addressing HIV/AIDS in the South. Experience community in action.

Mission, Vision and Expected Outcomes

Mission

To advance health equity through capacity building by engaging communities and organizations ready for excellence.

Vision

Communities served by strong, healthy, resilient, sustainable, adaptive, health equity-focused organizations

Expectations

Sustainable success

Repeated results

Recognized excellence

Our Work

Trauma Informed Care

learn more
  • Curriculum Development and Training Support
  • Trauma Informed Care intervention with Ryan White Clinic medical providers (HIV Service Providers)

Mothers 2 Mothers (m2m)

learn more

Through the Mentor Mother Model, m2m employs local women living with HIV as paid Community Health Workers to meet the growing and urgent health needs of the communities we serve. These “Mentor Mothers” deliver integrated primary health care services to dramatically improve the health and wellbeing of women, children adolescents, families and special populations.

Emory has partnered with the m2m team to explore opportunities to bring m2m interventions into the United States South in areas that could benefit from building their capacity to care for and support women living with HIV.

SelfMade Health Network

learn more

EnCORE provides technical assistance as a part of the SelfMade Health Network under TTAC. 

Our areas of specialty include:

  • Community Engagement
  • Partnership Development
  • Organizational Development
  • Low SES/or low resourced communities
learn more

Gilead COMPASS Initiative® (COMmitment to Partnership in Addressing HIV/AIDS in Southern States)

A $100 million commitment over 10 years to support organizations working to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Southern U.S.

Components of the Gilead COMPASS Initiative® Include:

  • Corporate Giving Programs
  • Independent Medical Education Grants
  • AIDSVu Partnership
  • Traditional Public Affairs Direct Grants
  • Southern HIV Impact Fund
  • Community Investment Awards

LEARN MORE AT THE GILEAD COMPASS INTIATIVE WEBSITE >

Programmatic Outcomes of the Gilead COMPASS Initiative®

Organizations Supported

as of June 2022

New Partnerships Formed

Phase 2 (2021-2022)

Funds Dispersed and Leveraged Funding

$6.6mil (2018-2022) & $5.5 mil

Our Services at Emory

  • Trainings (online & in-person)
  • Consultation Requests
  • Small Capacity Building Grants ($25-30K)*
  • Large Transformative Grants (up to $150K)*
  • Collaborative Learning Institutes
  • Webinars
  • Advisory Board
  • Service Desert Maps
  • Social Media Management
  • Website Management
  • Coordinate Cross Center Activities

*COMPASS Initiative® only

Capacity Building Support

Offerings:

  • Governance and Leadership
  • Mission, Values, and Strategy
  • Finance and Administration
  • Resource Development

 

  • Strategic Relationships and Coalition Building
  • Communications
  • Internal Management and Operations
  • Service Delivery and Impact

Ultimately, we want our work with organizations to support their efforts to become more sustainable, expand their services into new areas, and create new meaningful partnerships to better serve their communities.

Neena Smith-Bankhead

Director, EnCORE Center